Article Archive for November 2007
An MP3 clip… Amy Harmon national correspondent for The New York Times, and author of its series, “The DNA Age”, and Matt Crenson, content manager for 23andMe, a web-based DNA-discovery service, talk about the impact …
An MP3 clip… Doc Searls is the well-known blogger and co-author of the prescient Cluetrain Manifesto, which explains how the Internet has transformed corporate marketing. He is also the senior editor of Linux Journal, and …
An MP3 clip… Gerald Edelman presents his theory to explain the development and organization of higher brain functions in terms of a process known as neuronal group selection. This theory was presented in his widely …
An MP3 clip… Everyone knows that Wal-Mart is a great place for getting good stuff cheap. But for buying, say, organic cotton clothes in energy-efficient stores delivered by earth-friendly trucks at a price that won’t …
An MP3 clip… Gardner Campbell teaches English literature, film studies, writing, and — woven through it all these disciplines — a new one that he calls digital imagination. In this conversation with Jon Udell, he …
An MP3 clip… Megacities – those with more than 10 million inhabitants – give a whole new meaning to the problems of pollution, transport infrastructure, and all the other things that keep a city running. …
An MP3 clip… Harvard Business Online’s Steve Singer talks with Cheryl Perkins, president and founder of Innovation Edge about green innovation in business. [HBR Ideacast]
An MP3 clip… The future of China — a conversation with Daniel H. Bays, Professor of History and Head of Asian Studies at Calvin College. [Focus 580]
An MP3 clip… The privatization of water — a conversation with Alan Snitow, co-author of Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water. [Focus 580]
An MP3 clip… Will Bloomberg form a party on the Net? Will anyone form a party on the Net? Jerry Rafshoon and veteran Republican advisor, Doug Bailey, have already formed one. Will Bloomberg, or anyone …
Throughout the history of advertising and marketing, communicating with consumers has been a one-way street. Marketers produced and disseminated messages and consumers consumed them whether they liked them or not. Today, every person sees thousands …
Something Really New helps you get right to the heart of utilitarian innovation — efficiency, or the saving of effort, time, money, or all three. This book shows you how to analyze a task — …
An MP3 clip… Dr. Svante Paabo explains how he isolates the ancient DNA of Neanderthals from museum specimens. [Futures in Biotech]
An MP3 clip… Scientists are developing drugs that could extend the human life span by thirty years, and moreover, engineers are now considering biology to be a substrate for engineering: producing artificial chromosomes in the …
An MP3 clip… Marc Pelletier interviews Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. Part I of II. [Futures in Biotech]
An MP3 clip… The founder and CEO of “Second Life,” Philip Rosedale, gives a simultaneous demo and talk. His online avatar, “Philip Linden,” is on the screen showing things while the in-theater Philip Rosedale conjectures …
An MP3 clip… Paul Hawken wonders if humanity might have some collective intelligence that we don’t yet understand. The metaphor he finds most useful is the immune system, which is the most complex system in …
An MP3 clip… Humans, Juan Enriquez says, are
going to be increasingly designing and controlling the code of life. [Long Now Foundation Seminars]
The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited, Richard Coyne …
Recruit or Die provides a powerful, inside look at the entry-level college recruiting game. You don’t have to be the biggest and most well-known company to scoop up the best and the brightest on campus. …
During the 20th century, our population grew dramatically and shifted from rural to urban, creating unprecedented energy consumption, food production, and dramatic environmental impacts. The 21st century ushered in a new era of declines in …
Innovation Nation is vital reading for all those Americans who are troubled by the great challenges the United States faces in the ever-more-competitive economy of our twenty-first-century world. First offering a stunning, troubling portrait of …
A RealAudio clip… Many businesses are already actively seeking ways to reduce their carbon footprints. Diane Rehm talks with her guests about some of the challenges and opportunities of going green in the private …
An MP3 clip… Ron Fearing — director of the Biomimetic Millisystem Laboratory at UC Berkeley in California — presents the state of the art in aerial insect-size flapping robots with the Micromechanical Flying Insect …
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